SCENES FROM A YOUNGER, MORE HOPEFUL CITY
COMING SOON TO A BOOKSHELF NEAR YOU

I’ve compiled a picture book all about disappeared Seattle landmarks.Thanks in part to many of you loyalMISCmediareaders, the book’s chock full of photos, post cards, and memorabilia from Seattle’s recent past, specifically the second half of the 20th century (restaurants, bars, nightclubs, TV/radio personalities, local celebrities, amusement parks, stores, locally-made consumer goods, signs, buildings, bridges, and Bubbleators).

Seattle’s still a young city, growing and changing. But a lot of its short past is gone. But not forgotten. Generations of Seattleites have fond memories of past icons and landmarks. They evoke a less sophisticated, more freewheeling, more optimistic city.

Vanishing Seattle explores a city where timber and fish were more lucrative than airplanes and computers, a place of kitschy architecture and homespun humor, a place bounding with hope for a brighter future (as seen at the 1962 World’s Fair). We’ll recall shopping trips at Frederick & Nelson, dinners at Rosellini’s, burgers at Dag’s, and dancing at the Trianon Ballroom. We’ll root for baseball’s Rainiers. We’ll travel on the ferry Kalakala and on the Interurban Railway. We’ll meet some local personalities of that time (Stan Boreson, J.P. Patches, Wunda Wunda).

Vanishing Seattle is a book every Seattleite and ex-Seattleite of a certain age will crave.

Here are some of the book’s many, many subjects:

STORES

Frederick & Nelson

The Bon Marche

Downtown Penney’s

Rhodes of Seattle

Lamonts

I. Magnin

McDougall-Southwick

Jay Jacobs

Woolworth and Kress

Gov-Mart

Marketime and Valu-Mart

Doc Freeman’s

Warshal’s

Chubby & Tubby

Pay ‘n Save

Ernst Hardware

G.O. Guy

Trident imports

Shorey’s Books

Fillipi’s Books

Beauty and the Books

Squire Shops

Wigwam

Jafco

Fallout Records

(old) Nordstrom

Glamorama

Ruby Montana’s

S&M Market

A&P

Tradewell

Art’s Family Center

Food Giant

RESTAURANTS

Dog House

(original) El Goucho

Twin Teepees

Dag’s

Rosellini’s 410, 610

Captain’s Table

Last Exit on Brooklyn

Speakeasy Cafe

Manning’s

Abruzzi’s Pizza

Herfy’s

Clark’s chain

Cloud Room

Ben Paris

Copper Kitchen

Pizza & Pipes

Western Coffe Shop

2nd Ave. Pizza

Brasserie Pittsbourg

Longshoreman’s Daughter

King Oscar’s

Woerne’s European Pastry Shop

Lion O’Reilly’s

Great American Food and Beverage Co.

Manca’s

BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS

Trader Vic’s

(old) Place Pigalle, aka Pig Alley

(old) Frontier Room and other dive bars

Jake O’Shaugnessey’s

Trianon Ballroom

Spanish Castle

Wrex

(old) Rainbow

OK Hotel

Sit & Spin

Colourbox

The Vault (jazz club beneath the original 211 Club)

Penthouse (original Pioneer Square jazz club)

Gibson House

Admiral Benbow Inn

Ernie Steele’s/Ileen’s

Golden Tides

Shelley’s Leg

Boren Street Disco

The Monastery

BUILDINGS AND STREETSCAPES

Twin Teepees

Jolly Roger

Coon Chicken Inn

The First Avenue sleaze district

“The Blob”

Cyclops restaurant/Jell-O mold building

Grandma’s Cookies sign

Wonder Bread sign

Pacific Lincoln-Mercury sign

Blue flame neon

Broadway and Queen Anne high schools

First Christian Church

Temple de Hirsch

Municipal Building

Old Seattle Public Library

White-Henry-Stuart Building

Burke Building

COMPANIES AND PRODUCTS

Seafirst and Rainier banks

Frye’s and Bar-S meats

Societe candy

Fisher flour

Pomerelle wines

Vitamilk

Sunny Jim peanut butter and jams

Mary Pang’s frozen foods

Rainier and Olympia beers

SPORTS, ARTS, AND ENTERTAINMENT

Rainiers

Kingdome

Sick’s Stadium

Hydros, the early years

Longacres

211 Club

Warren Harding monument, Woodland Park

Luna Park

Playland

Leilani Lanes

Showboat Theater

Cinemas: Coliseum, Music Hall, Broadway, UA 70/150, Orpheum

Pioneer Square Theater/Angry Housewives

Aqua Theater

Namu and the original Seattle Aquarium

TRANSPORTATION

Hat n’ Boots

America’s first gas station (by Standard Oil of Calif. on East Marginal Way)

The Kalakala

Old ferry terminal

Trolleys

Interurban Railway

Old Lacey V. Murrow floating bridge

Old West Seattle bridge

Boeing Field

Old Sea-Tac terminal

Toe Truck

CENTURY 21 AND SEATTLE CENTER

Bubbleator

Boats inside Memorial Stadium

Hawaii pavilion

Union 76 Skyride

Fun Forest’s Flight to Mars

Gracie Hansen’s Paradise International

Civic Auditorium

Jones Fantastic Museum

MEDIA PERSONALITIES

J.P. Patches

Captain Puget

Ivar Haglund

Brakeman Bill

Stan Boreson

Wunda Wunda

Sheriff Tex

Bob Cram and Bob Hale

Leo Lassen

Wayne Cody, Pete Gross, Don Heinrich

KVI: Hardwick and co.

KOMO: Larry Nelson and co.

KJR: Pat O’Day and Charlie Brown

Almost Live!

The 128-page (6″ x 9″) paperback has 215 large monochrome pix, meticulously captioned.Vanishing Seattle is published by Arcadia Publishing. It’s also available thru Amazon.

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Bill M writes:

June 6th, 20151:26 pmat

Cool site! I grew up in greenwood in the 60’s-70’s I so remember Pizza & Pipes, I think before that it was the jolly troll or something like that. Also fond memories of the Greenwood movie theater which eventually turned into a porn theater before closing. Next door during the mid 70’s was the Greenwood Arcade, the original Arcade was around the corner on Greenwood ave & had a huge slot car track which we spent all or paper route money on. Other Greenwood favorites…Lucky Grocery Store, Maries Cafe,Greenwood Bowl & Roller Rink, Herfy’s Burgers on 85th, Atlantic Richfield Gas Station, The G-Note Club on 85th & 3rd. Great memories for sure!

Carl Alexander writes:

April 22nd, 20177:36 pmat

You’ve do a homesick middle-aged man’s heart good.

About a half-hour ago, the mood struck me and I started Googling the haunts of my misspent youth and looking in street view at the places they had once been. The Wikipedia entry on The Last Exit surprised me by having a picture of Irv in the Kitchen, taken about the time I worked there. Surprised because it looks like it was taken from the first or second marble table, and the Exit’s regulars were generally all over anyone who looked to be about to violate the No Pictures policy. Though I suppose it could have been taken through the window. (In which case I’ll pat myself on the back for having done a good job cleaning it the night before.)

Having forgotten briefly how to find a photo’s citation on Wikipedia, I looked at the footnotes, Googled your book, and thence found my way here. I look forward to the arrival of your book.

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Claudia Denholm writes:

November 17th, 201811:56 amat

Another store to add to your list: Casual Corner. It was located in Westlake Mall (on the SW corner) and I used to buy clothes there in the late 80s and early 90s. I still have a couple of winter coats with the CC label on them tucked away in storage.